[theme-reviewers] Duplicate/Copied Themes

[Chip Bennett]

Starter Themes are just that: a markup/functional base with which to turn a
design into a Theme.


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Melissa Oveson <missybunnie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Isn't it acceptable though for like _s and other starters to have pretty
> much the same structure as the starter as long as it's name spaced
> differently?
>
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
> If this was a Child Theme, I would say yes. Copied Themes
> without significant differences are not acceptable.
>
> Note that Authors URI is invalid, as well as
> http://www.fosforito.net/wp-themes/forestly (404)
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Casey Lee <casey at simplethemes.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm fairly new to the review process and am trying to help out as
>> much as possible.
>>
>> Theme I'm currently reviewing:
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16351
>>
>> One of the first things I noticed was the striking similarity of the
>> Iconic One theme:
>> http://cl.ly/image/3035312E3D0b
>>
>> How do you typically handle such issues - or is this even an issue?
>>
>> Casey
>>
>>
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